Practicing Ethnography in a Globalizing World

June C. Nash is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the City University of New York, Graduate Center and City College. She is the author of In the Eyes of the Ancestors: Belief and Behavior in a Mayan Community; We Eat the Mines and the Mines Eat Us: Dependency and Exploitation in Bolivian Mining Communities; and a family autobiography with Juan Rojas, I Spent My Life in the Mines. As a result of her engagement with feminist and working class movements, she has also co-edited with Helen Safa Sex and Class in Latin America, and Women and Change in Latin America; with M. Patricia Fernandez Kelly, Women, Men, and the International Division of Labor; and authored From Tank Town to High Tech: The Clash of Community and Industrial Cycles.

• 4 Part I: Paradigms and Postures 5 When Isms Become Wasms: Paradigms Lost and Regained 6 The Notion of the Limited Good and the Specter of the Unlimited Good 7 Women in Between: Globalization and the New Enlightenment 8 Part II: Reflections in the Ethnographic Mirror 9 Multiple Perspectives on Burmese Buddhism and Nat Worship 10 Part III: Engagement in Social Movements Today 11 Social Movements in Global Circuits 12 Part IV: The Hobbesian World of Terror and Violence 13 The Export of Militarization: Counterinsurgency Warfare in the Periphery 14 At Home with the Military-Industrial Complex 15 The Limits of Naivete in Anthropological Fieldwork: The 1954 U.S. Instigated Coup in Guatemala 15 Interpreting Social Movements: Bolivian Resistance to Economic Conditions Imposed by the IMF

For the past fifty years June Nash has been consistently five or ten years ahead of her time. The topics on which she has made ground breaking interventions—feminist theory, local-global relations, ethnography of powerful institutions, consciousness and resistance, social movements, indigenous empowerment, militarization and empire, ethics and politics of research— document anthropology's major preoccupations since the 1950s. This volume offers a comprehensive record of Nash's achievements confirms her place as one of the most influential and accomplished anthropologists of our times. We are well advised to read closely, to appreciate how she has shaped our field, and to glean some clues about what is coming next.